Palm Sunday

At Lamford we didn't have a Palm Sunday procession, but they do at Swanvale Halt, which is rather good. This year we (all right, I) revived the custom of knocking on the church door with the processional cross to the words of Psalm 24, 'lift up your heads o gates, be lifted up, you everlasting doors, and the King of Glory shall come in ...'. The dramatised reading of the Passion Gospel had a cast of thousands, and to my astonishment the whole congregation spontaneously knelt at the death of Jesus. I had no idea they were so well-trained.